Poetry can help us become more human. We saw it on display as 22-year-old inaugural poet Amanda Gorman read her stirring poem "The Hill We Climb" last week. It felt joyous and truthful, necessary ...

In the spring of 1986, I penned a poem entitled “Dream Fulfilled.” In those 44 lines of poetry, I gingerly attempted to incorporate iambic pentameter into the process.

In 1932, he published a collection of poems called “The Dream Keeper and Other Poems.” In 1935 in “Let America be America Again,” he wrote, “Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed.” ...

Sometimes things live up to their name. Take Robert Frost. The four-time-Pulitzer-winning poet is known for his wintry poem "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening." (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING ...

Jay-Z reads a stark, inspiring new poem, "Dream. On." ... “Because I know what a kid in apartment 5C see/ Heaven knows all I had was hella hope/ Speed dating with destiny, ...

“I have a dream.” You have heard the line. But what you may not know is that the poetry of Langston Hughes influenced Martin Luther King Jr.’s best-known speech, which he delivered during ...

When I heard that a previously unpublished poem by Robert Frost had been discovered, I was skeptical. I know Frost’s poetry well, having written “Robert Frost: A Life” and, quite recently, a ...

NPR poet-in-residence Kwame Alexander's latest community poem started with a request to consider what follows after the words "I dream a world." 'This Is Our Dream': A Crowdsourced Poem To Inspire ...